Customer Engagement & Relationship
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Customer Engagement & Relationship
This course is part of Microsoft Customer Service (with AI) Professional Certificate
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What you'll learn
Master customer engagement with AI-assisted communication, retention strategies, and account health insights to drive loyalty.
Skills you'll gain
- Customer experience improvement
- Relationship Management
- Communication
- Customer Analysis
- System Implementation
- Customer Retention
- Writing
- Driving engagement
- Customer Communications Management
- Business Metrics
- Communication Planning
- Customer Relationship Management
- Customer Relationship Building
- Emotional Intelligence
- Customer Complaint Resolution
- Account Management
- Customer Engagement
- Customer Service
- AI Personalization
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There are 12 modules in this course
Strengthen your ability to build meaningful customer relationships using structured communication strategies and AI-assisted tools. This course focuses on empathy-driven engagement, retention tactics, omni-channel communication templates, and account health monitoring. You will learn to segment customers, calculate engagement uplift, draft professional service communications, and personalize AI-generated responses while maintaining clarity and tone. Using CRM insights and AI sentiment signals, you will assess key account health, design proactive outreach plans, and craft effective service recovery messages. Through applied exercises and a project, you will translate engagement data into actionable strategies that support loyalty, satisfaction, and long-term value. By the end of this course, you will be able to design and implement customer engagement strategies that combine human empathy with AI-enhanced efficiency.
This module guides learners on using empathetic language to enhance customer satisfaction.
What's included
1 video1 reading2 assignments
1 video•Total 4 minutes
- Benefits of Empathetic Service•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Empathy in Customer Service•4 minutes
2 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Empathy in Practice•15 minutes
- Empathy Application Skills•15 minutes
Encourages learners to reflect on service interactions, fostering empathy and personal growth.
What's included
2 videos1 reading3 assignments
2 videos•Total 15 minutes
- Importance of Self-Reflection in Service Roles•6 minutes
- Developing Personal Reflection Strategies•9 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Reflective Practices for Service Professionals•4 minutes
3 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Reflection and Strategy Development•15 minutes
- Reflective Skills•15 minutes
- Empathy and Emotional Reflection in Customer Service•30 minutes
Details on executing customer segmentation and engagement strategies to enhance retention.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
2 videos•Total 16 minutes
- Impact of Customer Retention on Business Success•7 minutes
- Executing Proactive Chat Strategies•9 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Customer Retention Techniques•4 minutes
2 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Segment and Engage•15 minutes
- Engagement Strategy Skills•15 minutes
Guides learners through analyzing engagement metrics and refining strategies.
What's included
2 videos1 reading3 assignments
2 videos•Total 17 minutes
- The Significance of Measuring Engagement•7 minutes
- Evaluating Engagement Metrics•10 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Techniques for Measuring Customer Engagement•4 minutes
3 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Measure and Analyze Engagement•15 minutes
- Engagement Analysis Techniques•15 minutes
- Engagement Strategies and Performance Analysis•30 minutes
Covers the essentials of template creation and AI integration for omni-channel responses.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
2 videos•Total 14 minutes
- Benefits of Unified Communication Templates•6 minutes
- Developing Omni-Channel Templates•8 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Omni-Channel Communication Strategies•4 minutes
2 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Create Your Omni-Template•15 minutes
- Template Writing Skills•15 minutes
Focuses on optimizing the readability of communication templates for diverse audiences.
What's included
2 videos1 reading3 assignments
2 videos•Total 14 minutes
- Importance of Readable Communication•6 minutes
- Optimizing Template Readability•8 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Readability Metrics and Adjustments•4 minutes
3 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Readability Enhancement•15 minutes
- Readability Optimization Skills•15 minutes
- Omni-Channel Templates and Readability Optimization•30 minutes
This module offers structured procedures for regular account assessments to enhance engagement.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
2 videos•Total 12 minutes
- Importance of Regular Account Reviews•6 minutes
- Scheduling and Conducting Reviews•6 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Account Review Processes•4 minutes
2 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Practice Account Health Reviews•15 minutes
- Account Review Skills•15 minutes
This module provides insights into using health scores and identifying at-risk accounts for strategic focus.
What's included
2 videos1 reading3 assignments
2 videos•Total 15 minutes
- The Role of Health Scoring in Account Management•7 minutes
- Monitoring At-Risk Accounts•8 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Health Scoring Metrics•4 minutes
3 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Health Scoring and Risk Identification•15 minutes
- Scoring and Risk Skills•15 minutes
- Account Health Reviews & Risk Scoring•30 minutes
This module explores structured approaches to writing effective apologies that foster customer trust.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
2 videos•Total 8 minutes
- Importance of Crafting Good Apologies•2 minutes
- Drafting Apologies using AEAT Templates•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Apology Frameworks and Practices•4 minutes
2 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Practice Apology Writing•15 minutes
- Apology Writing Skills•15 minutes
Provides insights on using AI for adjusting tone to align with customer communications standards.
What's included
1 video1 reading3 assignments
1 video•Total 2 minutes
- Significance of Apology Tone•2 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Tone Adjustment Techniques•4 minutes
3 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Tone Adjustment Practice•15 minutes
- Tone Adjustment Skills•15 minutes
- Apologies and Tone Adjustment•30 minutes
Apply engagement and relationship strategies in a summative project that simulates real-world customer service contexts—while reinforcing when strategic planning, emotional intelligence, and human judgment drive lasting client loyalty.
What's included
1 video1 reading2 assignments
1 video•Total 3 minutes
- Engaging Customers for Long-Term Success•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
- Strategic Engagement Planning•4 minutes
2 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Conducting Engagement Projects•15 minutes
- Customer Engagement Portfolio•15 minutes
Leverage generative AI to accelerate customer communication drafting, analyze engagement signals, and generate response recommendations—while understanding when human judgment and emotional intelligence remain essential.
What's included
3 readings1 assignment
3 readings•Total 12 minutes
- AI as Your Customer Engagement Partner•3 minutes
- AI Tools and Customer Engagement Use Cases•5 minutes
- AI Limitations and Validation Requirements•4 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
- AI-Assisted Customer Engagement•5 minutes
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